{"id":19510,"date":"2019-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/25\/who-no-more-than-one-hour-of-screen-time-a-day-for-young-children\/"},"modified":"2019-04-26T16:08:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T16:08:10","slug":"who-no-more-than-one-hour-of-screen-time-a-day-for-young-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/25\/who-no-more-than-one-hour-of-screen-time-a-day-for-young-children\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO: No More Than One Hour of Screen Time a Day for Young Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>WHO guidelines similar to recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>THURSDAY, April 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Screen time for children younger than 5 should be limited to one hour a day, and those younger than 1 year should get no screen time at all, new World Health Organization guidelines say.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO&#8217;s first guidelines on the topic are similar to recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics.<\/p>\n<p>Video chats should be the only screen time allowed for children younger than 18 months, according to the AAP. It also recommends that children younger than 2 view only &#8220;high-quality programming&#8221; with educational value that can be watched with a parent to help children understand what they are seeing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Improving physical activity, reducing sedentary time, and ensuring quality sleep in young children will improve their physical, mental health and well-being, and help prevent childhood obesity and associated diseases later in life,&#8221; Fiona Bull, Ph.D., program manager for surveillance and population-based prevention of noncommunicable diseases at the WHO, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/detail\/24-04-2019-to-grow-up-healthy-children-need-to-sit-less-and-play-more\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More Information: WHO<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthychildren.org\/English\/family-life\/Media\/Pages\/Healthy-Digital-Media-Use-Habits-for-Babies-Toddlers-Preschoolers.aspx\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More Information: AAP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO guidelines similar to recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-19510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}